This is an actual and true poster for one of Gustav Mahler‘s final concert performances in the US, in Hartford, Connecticut: It’s nauseating to witness the sublime and transcendent —
People seem to think that women and men of greatness are “great” in all aspects of their personality. We hear a piano sonata or late string quartet by Beethoven, and
The following letter was sent by the great Arnold Schönberg to Gustav Mahler on the evening of the general rehearsal of Mahler’s Third Symphony, on 12 December 1904 — 117
”We admitted we were powerless over our addiction, that our lives had become unmanageable.”
Mahler Today — November 9: The Welte-Mignon Recordings Exactly 116 years ago, today, one of the biggest treasures for any Mahler lover was created: the Welte-Mignon recordings of Mahler playing
I have never, ever shared a cat-meme before. And it will never happen again. God have mercy. But this was too good to pass up. More than just a meme,
Alfred Roller relates that an operation in 1901 had left Mahler with extensive internal lesions: “These obliged him to be especially vigilant about what he ate and to follow a
The finale of the Second Symphony, conducted by Leonard Bernstein at Tanglewood, July 5, 1970. I can basically match the moment of the picture to the note being played there
